At the end of March I wrote this article explaining that there has been an ever increasing number of super capitals dying across New Eden. Last month it began with Northern Coalition. [NC] killing 1 Psychotic Tendencies. [TISHU] Erebus and Nyx. This month it started with this Ev0ke Avatar dying and has now continued onto a Wyvern that this post is about.
The Wyvern in question was piloted by Tenjii, of corporation Diesel Corporation [DC4] who are part of the Intercom. [INTER] alliance and members of the Caldari Faction Warfare Militia. He was caught by members of the alliance Overload Everything [8URNT], who are a well known pirate alliance in the area around the Caldari/Gallente Faction Warfare systems alongside frenemies Shadow Cartel [SHDWC] and Snuffed Out [B B C].
Due to the destruction of said ship by [8URNT] I contacted the CEO of the alliance Doomchinchilla who provided me with the follow response:
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So we were doing nothing as usual then we were linked this )(image shown above).
Xentelk Solette burnt towards galmil’s area as we ran locators on the pilot. It turned out that he was bashing an Ihub in Esesier. He kept changing align points and ended up warping to P1 (which has no moons). We had 2 scouts land off of him as he recalled fighters, he cloaked up. We scrambled dreads and HICs as well as DPS t3s to burn to our titan and midpoint.As we were still getting on the titan he decloaked. We reflex lit our in cyno because we thought he was jumping out so we bridged 4 HICs in, he then warped off to the Anchauttes gate and our HICs followed him. He jumped into system and we were able to confirm point and pile everything else in. The rest is pretty normal, overheat guns… remind my guys not to burn out their guns *sigh* and then confirm the kill.
The credit for the in cyno and scouting 100% goes to Xentelk Solette of Black Wolf Arms [B-W-A].
And that’s our story of the Wyvren who thought that bashing a faction warfare ihub then warping to a planet without moons AND THEN warping to gate without an exit cyno was a good idea.
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Clearly with the changes to capitals being able to jump gates it has created additional opportunities to friendlies and hostiles alike as it is a pincer point in which a capital will struggle to escape, especially if they have too much fatigue to travel via the usual out cyno method. It is also unusual to see a super carrier being used in such a way as they tend to be used primarily with a large fleet in support. Another unusual point is the target which is out of the ordinary as a FW Ihub would generally not need something such as a super carrier to capture it and the only outcome of doing such would be to draw more entities towards you. The final thing is the fit which is strange considering that the ship itself has large rigs which pre-date the now in-use capital variant, as well as having little to no ISK spent on it as is usually the case for pilots of such expensive ships.
We will likely never know the reasons behind the choices that was made but it still doesn’t change the outcome. Another super capital added to the pile of scrap prior to the changes that we are yet to see from CCP about their uses in the future.
I have contacted [INTER] and at the time of writing have yet to receive a response. This post shall be updated if this changes.
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